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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Today at the bench
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:00:02 -0800
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On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Bob Adler wrote:

> Thanks Steve. I'll miss you and Tikwa (and Jane and Hudson and Kiwi). 
> 
> Looks like we should get in no problem on Thursday. Snow should start on 
> Thursday night. Estimates of 2 - 4 feet until Sunday then clearing. 
> 
> You wouldn't have any problem getting in tomorrow. Then you can go around 
> with us in the truck. It's just that Tikwa isn't allowed in any of the 
> lodges inside the park. 
> 
> Sure I can't change your mind?  I need a people photographer such as you 
> to take my pic!!
> ;-)


I'd love it but will pass this time,  come to Sacramento again soon, we'll 
take a few pictures,





have fun,

Steve


> 
> Bob
> 
> Bob Adler
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
> 
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> have fun at Yosemite Bob,
>> 
>> good luck...I hope the weather holds up,
>> 
>> 
>> stay in touch,
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Bob Adler wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Ted. I'm glad you like the BW. That was my first use of a little 
>>> 2/3 
>>> camera that has "replaced" my M9. I plan to use it when I go on extended 
>>> hikes... maybe...
>>> 
>>> As for changes to the first image, I still don't think it's quite there 
>>> with the 
>>> recent change. Sometimes I'm so happy with a capture that I do some 
>>> quick 
>>> dodging/burning/contrast and throw it up on the web. I did that with 
>>> this image. 
>>> So far so good.
>>> 
>>> Then several people asked me if this was one of those "HDR" images; a 
>>> polite way 
>>> of saying it didn't look real and seemed a bit "over cooked". So I 
>>> started 
>>> working on it a tad and I think it's a little better, but too dark in 
>>> the 
>>> foreground. I need to work on it a bit more and we'll see what happens. 
>>> Heck, I 
>>> might just go back to the first one!
>>> 
>>> But as you say, it's wonderful when people give comments and critiques, 
>>> and most 
>>> all I've encountered here do so, as you point out, from the heart. It's 
>>> the kind 
>>> of input you won't find anywhere else; part of what makes the LUG such a 
>>> great 
>>> group. So if more than two or three say the same thing, I think it's 
>>> probably 
>>> worth taking a look at again to try to see what they see. 
>>> 
>>> Again, thanks for chiming in. 
>>> Bob
>>> Bob Adler
>>> Palo Alto, CA
>>> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 9:27:24 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Today at the bench
>>> 
>>> Bob Adler showed:
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Today at the bench
>>> 
>>> One of the things that happens when one put's up a photograph of this 
>>> beautiful 
>>> nature and we begin seeing suggestions about how and what should be done 
>>> or 
>>> tried, we begin to have a "so called improvement by committee !" 
>>> Something like 
>>> too many cooks spoil the broth or whatever the saying is. No argument in 
>>> many 
>>> cases an offering from another member to lighten or darken; crop a 
>>> little here 
>>> or there; or other suggestion does improve the image. And we all take 
>>> these 
>>> suggestions as comments from the goodness in the heart of the sender.
>>> 
>>> But sometimes we must hang tough and satisfy our own innate instincts of 
>>> what 
>>> "we as the provider of the image likes best." Trust me, I'm the first to 
>>> admit 
>>> my instinct has been wrong more times than it's been right. I always 
>>> weigh C&C's 
>>> with welcome, simply because I just see the mage, shoot it, but I'm not 
>>> the 
>>> brightest at that extra technical edge many of you offer when it comes 
>>> to 
>>> squeezing the max quality out in making a print.
>>> 
>>> By the way this morning is the first time I saw this beautiful image in 
>>> B&W!!!!! 
>>> What can one say but, "Move over Ansel there's a new kid on the block!!" 
>>> Another 
>>> photograph to go big 40" X 60" inches because "it's a great big scene 
>>> and 
>>> demands to be viewed big for maximum impact!!
>>> 
>>> Just a passing thought or two.
>>> cheers,
>>> Dr. ted
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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